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Ikeda Sensei offers guidance on helping our children grow into compassionate individuals by leading by example and learning to understand their hearts. It can be found in Happy Parents, Happy Kids, pp. 71–72. Children’s hearts are naturally pure until polluted by the muddy, egoistic society of adults. It takes genuine kindness to understand the pain

Raising children to become people of character is the enduring task of parenthood. And yet, a parent’s efforts may be rebuffed by the children themselves. When this happens, the best of us may feel inclined to scold our kids or to throw up our hands, at a loss as to what went wrong. Ikeda Sensei

Fighting alongside my daughter teaches me what it means to never give up.